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Bayern Munich's Jérôme Boateng is the first int'l footballer to sign with Roc Nation Sports under a partnership Jay Z's sports agency has formed with a new German sports agency, but he may not be the last. Roc Nation's agreement to represent Boateng, who played for the German national t...

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German public broadcaster ARD "scored high ratings with its sports broadcasts on Saturday," according to Daniel Sallhoff of QUOTENMETER. The return of the Bundesliga "Sportschau" program, which started at 6pm German time, attracted 5.62 million viewers. It was the most watched Sportschau since Nov. ...

The Bundesliga "wants to put a stop to black market ticket sales," according to Stefan Merx of HANDELSBLATT. The German Football League (DFL) "will put together a working group at the end of the month to establish rules for the resale of tickets on the secondary market." DFL Managing Dir Andreas Ret ...

Austrian TV channel Puls4 "will take its dispute with public broadcaster ORF to the country's media authority KommAustria," according to KURIER. ORF "has won the Champions League rights in December and will once again live broadcast the competition starting with the '14-15 season." Puls4 "does not w ...

German Ski Federation (DSV) President Franz Steinle "is against a winter World Cup in Qatar in 2022," according to the SID. Steinle said, "Football is the No. 1 sport. A move of the World Cup would be disastrous for us winter sports athletes and would have huge economic consequences. Therefore we wi ...

There are times when European Tour CEO George O'Grady "must feel like he is under siege," according to Ewan Murray of the London GUARDIAN. The reality is that the European Tour "has actually performed remarkably well in recent times." Its financial position "is the best it has been for decades," eve ...

The sport of cycling has been tarnished by a seemingly endless amount of doping scandals over the last two decades. The sport's governing body, the UCI, has done next to nothing to stop this practice of systematic doping. However, new UCI President BRIAN COOKSON has made it his primary goal to ens ...

German fourth-tier football club Alemannia Aachen "has been saved financially after its creditors agreed to its bankruptcy plan," according to the DPA. The club and its administrator said that the court "could lift the insolvency proceedings very shortly." The creditors have agreed to forgo a majori ...

Bayern Munich Exec Board Chair Karl-Heinz Rummenigge said that the club "will increase the capacity of its Allianz Arena," according to the SID. He said, "It looks like we will soon have 75,000 seats." The club plans to add around 4,000 additional seats to its arena. Currently, the Allianz Arena has ...

The Hungaroring racetrack near Budapest, Hungary "has to make urgent renovations ahead of the F1 grand prix on July 27," according to the SID. The Hungaroring was built in '85, and a track spokesperson said that its "asphalt surface, curbs, drainage system and electronics are outdated." To make the ...

F1 CEO Bernie Ecclestone has had a $650M lawsuit against him by American investment firm Bluewaters "dismissed" in the N.Y. Supreme Court, according to Christian Sylt for AUTOWEEK.
Bluewaters said that "it was the highest bidder when F1 was sold to private equity firm CVC" in '06 for $2B. The lawsui ...